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Keywords climate change extreme rainfall landslides Pongo tapanuliensis population viability species extinction tropical forest wildlife conservation Results The pre-event classification (Figure S1) shows that the study area was 99.3% forested, with 0.6% bare soil. The post-event classification estimated 8,303 ± 1,760 ha of newly denuded terrain (flood damage and landslide scars, henceforth referred to as “scars”), accounting for 11.7 ± 2.4% of the study area (Figure 1).

Submitted: 27 November 2025 You are already at the latest version Zachlod et al. [1] analysed satellite data from Malaysian oil palm plantations and concluded that RSPO certification reduces plantation efficiency by lowering canopy coverage. Our reanalysis of 93,987 ha shows that their methods and interpretation are fundamentally flawed, primarily because they failed to account for routine replanting, which caused temporary canopy loss in 32.7% of certified areas between 2018 and 2023.